glenn diaz

Glenn Diaz’s first novel The Quiet Ones (Ateneo Press) won the 2017 Palanca Grand Prize and the Philippine National Book Award and the Madrigal Gonzales First Book Award, and received praise from Gina Apostol: “The prose seduces, the story devastates: a postcolonial lyric brooding on our world’s capitalist nightmare. Glenn Diaz’s The Quiet Ones gives the Philippines a book it has been waiting for.” His second novel, Yñiga (Ateneo Press) won the 2024 Philippine National Book Award for Best Novel in English.  Glenn Diaz is a recipient of fellowships and residencies in Bangalore, New York, and Jakarta, among others. Born and raised in Manila, he completed his PhD in 2021 at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.  The first chapter of Yñiga was published in Johannesburg Review of Books and an extract in The Oxonian Review.